Georg Hainz (1630–1700) was a German Baroque painter. He is sometimes called Heintz or Hinz.

Biography

He was born in

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. According to the RKD, Hainz is known for still life paintings and was the teacher of

Christian Berentz Christian Berentz or Bernetz (1658–1722) was a German Baroque painter. Biography Berentz was born in Hamburg, Germany. According to the RKD pupil he was the pupil of Hermann Kamphusen from 1667 to 1673 and then from 1673 to 1677 a pupil of G ...

.Georg Hinz
in the

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He was possibly also the teacher of

Franz Werner von Tamm Franz Werner von Tamm (1658–1724) was a German Baroque painter who travelled to and worked in Italy. Biography Von Tamm was born in Hamburg. According to Houbraken, who called him ''Joano Vernero Tam'' in a poem about the members of the B ...

. According to Houbraken who called him Hins, he was the teacher of

Ernst Stuven Ernst Stuven (c. 1657–1712) was a German Baroque flower painter. Biography According to Houbraken, he was born in Hamburg, where he was initially trained by Georg Hainz. At the age of eighteen he moved to Amsterdam (c. 1675–1677), where he b ...

and took him into his home when he noticed how much talent the young boy had.Georg Hainz Biography
in ''De groote schouburgh der Nederlantsche konstschilders en schilderessen'' (1718) by

Arnold Houbraken Arnold Houbraken (28 March 1660 – 14 October 1719) was a Dutch painter and writer from Dordrecht, now remembered mainly as a biographer of Dutch Golden Age painters. Life Houbraken was sent first to learn ''threadtwisting'' (Twyndraat) fr ...

, courtesy of the

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Hainz died in

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in 1700.

References

Georg Hainz
on

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{{DEFAULTSORT:Hainz, Georg 1630 births 1700 deaths German Baroque painters People from Goslar